There’s a Bowl For That

Boke Bowl is a polished, pragmatic take on ramen.

Food Reviews & Stories With its clean lines, design-conscious self-branding and techy iconography, Boke Bowl’s interior looks more than anything like an Apple store.   More

 

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Fizz Without Buzz

Food Reviews & Stories If I wanted to get rich and famous in Portland, I’d open an old-timey soda fountain. I’d call it Dr. Pickwick’s Tonics & Elixirs. I’d fill it with vintage pharmacy bottles and old pa   More

 

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 RUTH BROWN

Warm and Koozie

Smokehouse 21 isn't Podnah's. But the pork is great.

Food Reviews & Stories The koozies are genius. There’s something inexplicably decadent and wonderful about a restaurant offering a cushy foam barrier to keep your beer cold and your hand warm. Sipping $2 cans of PBR f   More

 

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Mi Mero Mole

Nick Zukin is your new Mexican grandmother.

Food Reviews & Stories The aroma inside Mi Mero Mole is like entering the kitchen of a Mexican grandmother—a heavenly blend of freshly made corn tortillas and simmering spices. She would insist you stay for dinner and   More

 

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 PENELOPE BASS

Turning Japanese

Love Via Crepes fills its crepes with love (and wasabi mayo).

Food Reviews & Stories Crepes are not something one associates with Japan, but, as a placard on the wall at Love Via Crepes compendiously informs us, it is a street food that traveled the oceans a century back. And li   More

 

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Schmear Apparent

We miss Kettleman’s bagels, too. Who can replace them?

Food Reviews & Stories Kettleman Bagels is in zombie mode. Things have slipped fast since the beloved local bagelry sold out last November to Colorado-based Einstein Bros. Kettleman’s superb boiled bagels...   More

 

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 PENELOPE BASS

Las Primas

Peruvian sandwiches, punched up.

Food Reviews & Stories In most every language, “sandwich” is a synonym for delicious. Case in point, Las Primas, a new Peruvian joint on North Williams Avenue next to the Box Social, which ditches ceviche for stre   More

 

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 KELLY CLARKE

Pho Huy

Lean meat, phat flavor.

Food Reviews & Stories That a great bowl of pho need not be all gizzards and tail is blasphemy to some. So call mine the ignorant opinion of a margarine-raised Midwesterner, but I like really nice, clean shaves of nea   More

 

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

A Pair To Remember

Coppia remains a vinter’s paradise—now with food to match.

Food Reviews & Stories Blind item: What famed Portland director of various Afflecks was recently seen supping at Pearl District dining hotspot Coppia with a statuesque blonde companion?   More

 

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 AARON MESH

A Fine Show

Tony Demes is back with Noisette.

Food Reviews & Stories Chef Tony Demes’ new French-modern restaurant Noisette is good for both dinner and a show if you do it right. Couvron, his much-missed previous restaurant—which Demes moved from Portland to Ne   More

 

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 MATTHEW KORFHAGE